Monday 15 December 2008

Daniel makes his acting debut

Daniel was in the Christmas play performance yesterday in the role of Obed, son of Ruth & Boaz & an ancestor to Jesus. He was originally asked to be the baby Jesus since he is, in fact, the only boy in a sea of baby girls, but he got too big to be believable as a newborn & was switched to the other role. He seemed to enjoy getting to go for a look around in the middle of the service & thankfully didn't decide to make his a speaking role.

Above: Daniel is being held by "Naomi" & "Ruth" after the play was over. They didn't want to give him back but we insisted.

Below: "Naomi" comes to borrow Daniel from us for his big acting debut. He was paraded around & shown off for a few minutes and then brought back to us.

Keith held a sleeping Daniel for the big group shot after the service. There were way more people involved than are in my picture.


Daniel received rave reviews for his performance as a beautiful baby, but so far it doesn't seem to have gone to his head.

Wednesday 10 December 2008

New scale?


Dumbo the Elephant replaced by Mortimer the Moose? Time will tell.

11 weeks


Well, the end of counting in weeks is soon approaching. Daniel is 11 weeks old in this picture and it's getting difficult to get all of him and Dumbo in the same shot straight on. He's also getting wise to the camera (Daniel, not Dumbo). Quite often he'll be smiling and cooing at me, but as soon as I pick the camera the smile disappears and is replaced by a look of "What are you doing?" He seems to have inherited his Uncle Kellen's aversion to being photographed so I guess I will just have to resort to other tactics. Coming soon: short videos (I hope).

Monday 1 December 2008

Growing, growing, growing...

Uncle Stephen came to visit for Daniel's 2 month "birthday" & the two of them got along famously.

Daniel is developing an ever widening range of facial expressions. The pictures on the striped blanket are from today- he is now 10 weeks old.




Working on lifting his head to look Dumbo in the eye.






First smiles captured

Sorry for the long hiatus- our computer crashed not long after the last post & it was a few days before we could get it fixed. Thankfully most things were backed up on an external hard drive, and Keith's tech person at school was able to recover quite a bit for us as well.

Daniel is smiling all the time now, as well as cooing and giggling. He's pretty sure that he can talk with us, but it's mostly oohs and aahs and something that sounds like a long "hi".